Every month, we will focusing on a designer, studio or company that we have recently worked with. This month we are featuring a project carried out for Andy Huntington, an interactions designer.
Andy works as an independent interaction designer and usually focuses on software and hardware prototyping.
Laser cutting is used widely for prototyping parts for interaction design projects .Our Epilog Legend EXT can
“I've used CLC for cutting prototype parts for model making but most recently I’ve cut a series of unique
For this project named ‘Datadecs’ we produced 3 of the 4 decorations.
Flickr - shows the distribution of aperture values used in the photographs since 1st Jan 2009.
Last.fm - these are the number of scrobbles submitted to Last.fm per month for 12 months starting in October 2008. The results can be read from top to bottom.
Dopplr - each drip from the cloud on the dopplr decoration is the number of miles traveled in a particular month.
Andy produced all the artwork for cutting using unique data collection techniques and supplied his own specification of perspex all ready to cut. We run a series of tests to demonstrate the capabilities of our machines, and to achieve the necessary result required.
“Supplying artwork was really easy. Then I went round, watched a test cut and when we were happy we cut the final pieces.”
We tested a series of engraving technique with different font points to demonstrate the detail in which we could engrave. We were able to engrave the smallest size of font required.
We asked Andy why he chose to work with us for this project:
“Convenience, cost and ability to try new things. Oh, and the fact they're round the corner, they advised on an approach to minimize the cutting paths, thus the cutting time, thus the cost.”
Special thanks to Andy Huntington and The Really Interesting Group.
